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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. J. J. Lankes. This is a jacketed and inscribed first trade edition, first printing of the book that won Robert Frost his first Pulitzer Prize. Frost inked this copy in eight lines on the front free endpaper recto with the final five-line stanza of the poem Our Singing Strength (printed at p.110): Well, something for a snowstorm to have shown | The countrys singing strength thus brought together, | That through repressed and moody with the weather, | Was none the less there ready to be freed | And sing the wild flowers up from root and seed. | Robert Frost | For | John Stuart Groves. The sole previous ownership mark we find in the book is the small, illustrated Morocco bookplate of JOHN STUART GROVES affixed to the front pastedown. Groves (1881-1958) was an accomplished Delaware bibliophile. On 1 January 1933 Frost wrote Dear Mr. Groves: I shall be glad to write my name in your copies of my books. I have a warm place in…
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New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, inscribed by Frost with the final stanza of his poem "Our Singing Strength"
by Robert Frost, with four woodcut illustrations by J. J. Lankes
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NEW HAMPSHIRE: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (SIGNED First Edition with Signed Photograph, Autograph Letter and Inscribed Woodcut Proof Laid-In)
by Robert Frost (Woodcuts by J.J. Lankes)
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New York: Henry Holt, 1923. First American Edition (Crane A6). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (113 pages, 4 full page woodcuts, including frontispiece, by Lankes). The collection that won Frost his first Pulitzer Prize, containing the poems "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "Fire and Ice," among others. This is the First Trade Edition, without dust jacket, inscribed and SIGNED in ink on the front free endpaper: “For Thomas Jacob, the best wishes of his Western friend, Robert Frost. Amherst, February 1924.” The book is in very good condition, with light rubbing to the cloth. Laid-in is an Autograph Letter Signed from Frost to Thomas Jacob, dated December 27, 1924, in the original envelope, together with a small sepia snapshot photograph of Frost, inscribed and signed in ink on the verso: “For Thomas Jacob, from his friend in the United States, Robert Frost.” Also present is one of the original proofs for illustrator J.J. Lanke’s frontis woodcut, inscribed in pencil…
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